To Kill a Mockingbird

How does Mrs.Dubose torment Jem and scout?

Chapter 11

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Mrs. Dubose was verbally abusive to Jem and Scout. She criticized Atticus for defending a black man. Every time they pass her house, they would hear her.

Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing. (